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Wrap Buddies Review and Giveaway

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Many of you know that I had rotator cuff surgery two weeks ago. Right before I went into surgery, I received a set of Wrap Buddies to review. I am glad I have them as my third daughter’s birthday is this Thursday. I had to wrap her presents with basically one hand.

How to use Wrap Buddies to help you get presents.

I have a cool shoulder cradle that does allow me to use my left hand a little, but I don’t have full function of that hand or arm. With the Wrap Buddies help. I was able to wrap her presents rather easily.

Here’s how it works:

Clip Wrap Buddies to any table or counter top. Place the roll in between the Wrap Buddies and adjust the spacing to fit the length. Unroll the paper, measure, and easily cut. The built in tape dispenser stays close by so everything you need is always within reach. 

What I liked best was how my wrapping paper stayed still and did not roll up on me. Without having a second hand to stabilize the paper, it was nice to not have to worry about the paper rolling up.

My dining roll table was not the perfect table as the Wrap Buddies only clipped about half way on because part of the table under the tabletop stopped it from clipping on the whole way. But it still did work. I also liked the way my regular tape dispenser with its steel serrated edge cuts tape better than the Wrap Buddies as it has plastic serrated edges. It did cut though, so it would be nice to have extra tape dispensers when wrapping a lot of presents.

I can see myself using these Wrap Buddies at Christmas. I wrap each child’s Christmas presents in a different roll of paper. I can put one roll of paper on the holder, roll out the paper, wrap all the presents for that child before I move onto the next roll of paper and the next child.

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Tasty Tuesdays: No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies + Giveaway

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Eat Like You Give a Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive is an instructional book sharing 8 essential strategies to eating healthy plus sharing recipes that actually implement those strategies.

I was given a copy of this book for my honest review, and after reading word for word about half of the book, I can honestly say that if I did what this book teaches, I think it would be life-changing for me.

I picked it up with the idea of just scanning over it to share with you what was in it and once I got started reading, I couldn’t put it down.

Why did I feel this way?

I don’t eat healthy (for the most part), and I partly don’t eat healthy because I don’t like many healthy foods. So I was immediately intrigued with the idea of retraining my tastebuds. Can it be done? I am a skeptic, but I want to give it a try!

I also loved it when Mareya Ibrahim said in her introduction, “No one should do anything that starts with ‘die’.”

This is not a diet book. This is a lifestyle book with a clear way to go about eating healthy that doesn’t have you counting points or calories or buying into a pyramid program to drink their drinks.

I am not knocking those aids, necessarily. I just don’t want to be tied to a program. I want to be healthy because what I put into my body is what God intended for me to put into my body.

I want to give this book a try and do what Mareya Ibrahim lays out in the 8 essential strategies to eating healthy, but I won’t be able to start until the middle of July — and I think I will be on my own in my family, although I might be able to get my husband to do it with me. With my rotator shoulder surgery, I can’t do the meal prep I would have to do to get this started and I can’t drive to get the additional groceries I need. But when I do it, I’ll let you know if I stuck to it.

Even if you choose to not do all of these 8 strategies, you would still like to get a copy of this book for the excellent recipes.

Mareya Ibrahim, nutritionist, award-winning inventor, and the signature chef and meal plan designer for the bestselling diet book The Daniel Plan, included eighty “forking delicious” recipes in her cookbook. For not being the healthiest eater, I thought I would like many of these recipes — without even having retrained my taste buds. Here are a few of them:

  • Zucchini Noodles with Romesco Sauce
  • Low-Sodium Umami Bone Broth
  • You Glow Smoothie
  • No-Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Eat Like You Give a Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive Cookbook — 8 essential strategies to a eating healthy

  • Strategy 1: Retrain your taste buds. the book includes an eight-day taste bud reconditioning meal plan.
  • Strategy 2: Stocking your kitchen. Not only does the book include a “steer-clear list” but it also includes a checklist called “your essential refrigerator” as well as instruction on how to organize your refrigerator.
  • Strategy 3: Get up on Greens — The recipes in this section included those all-important green, and they looked yummy!
  • Strategy 4: The Fast Break — Directions on how to do intermittent fasting. It is very doable using the plan showed in this book. You wouldn’t even feel like you were fasting!
  • Strategy 5: Go Gluten Free Super Grains — There is a short list you can use to know which grains are good to eat.
  • Strategy 6: Fat Fillers — There is good fat! Do you know the difference between good and bad fats?
  • Strategy 7: Be Real Dense — nutritionally dense foods that feed you to the core.
  • Strategy 8: The 90/10 Rule –about 3 of your meals per week can be what you want them to be. See how to decide what that 10% can be.
Eat Like You Give a Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive Cookbook and 8 essential strategies to a eating healthy

Here is one recipe from Eat Like You Give a Fork!

Healthy No Bake Oatmeal Cookies

I will definitely give these No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies a try!

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Healthy No Bake Oatmeal Cookies
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No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Healthy no-bake cookies!

Course: Dessert
Servings: 12
Author: Mareya Ibrahim
Ingredients
  • 1/2 c canned unsweetened full fat coconut milk
  • 1/2 c + 2 tbsp. natural creamy peanut butter (or sunflower seed butter, for a nut-free option), at room temperature
  • 2 tbsp. raw coconut oil
  • 2 tsp. granulated stevia or monkfruit sweetener
  • 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp. Himalayan pink salt
  • 3 c. quick-cooking oats
  • 1/2 c. no-sugar-added dark chocolate chips
Instructions

  1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, wax paper, or a silicone mat.

  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the coconut milk, ½ cup of the peanut butter, and ½ cup water until smooth. Add the coconut oil, stevia, vanilla, and salt and mix until smooth.

  3. Using a spatula, fold in the oats, making sure all the oats are well soaked. Let sit for about 10 minutes, until the mixture becomes firm. Fold in the chocolate chips and mix with a spatula to evenly distribute them.

  4. Using an ice cream scoop, portion cookies onto the prepared baking sheet, spacing them about 2 inches apart, and press down lightly to flatten them.

  5. In a small bowl, whisk together the remaining 2 tablespoons peanut butter and ½ teaspoon water. Drizzle the peanut butter over the tops of the cookies and let set at room temperature, about 15 minutes. Store wrapped in parchment paper to keep them fresh up to a week





Recipe Notes

From EAT LIKE YOU GIVE A FORK: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive.  Copyright © 2019 by Mareya Ibrahim and reprinted with permission from St. Martin’s Griffin.

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The Easiest Way to Entertain Children

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One of the easiest ways to entertain children is . . .

Bubbles!

Anyone who has ever had children knows how much toddlers love bubbles. We would keep a small bottle in the nursery, and when kids were crying or after all the toys were cleaned up, we would pull out that bottle and start blowing bubbles. It was like magic! The crying would stop, and kids were entertained for a long time!

My eight year old still enjoys playing with bubbles. We still buy bubbles, and sometimes even make bubbles, that she’ll blow. She was very excited when I was given Zing’s Glove-A-Bubbles so that I could give my honest review on the product.

She loved it! We only opened one pouch, and we are saving the rest for when friends can come over. These bubbles were last year’s Summer Toy of the Year, and it’s easy to see why.  You just have to dip and wave!

Here were the 3 Zing’s products we were given to try out:

3 different kinds of Zing Bubbles: Big-A-Bubbles Wave-A-Bubbles Glove-A-Bubbles So much fun!
  • Big-A-Bubbles: Open the mouth of the glove using your thumb and index finger to create GIANT bubbles. Comes in 6 different theme gloves — lion, crocodile, pirate, shark, duck and bear.
  • Wave-A-Bubbles: Double the bubbles for double the fun! Put on the glove, dip and wave for endless amounts of bubbles. Available in 4 different characters –mermaid, dino, bird and frog.
  • Glove-A-Bubbles: The original line, now available in 8 NEW glove themes — cheetah, penguin, fox and a lots of bubble “monsters.”
My daughter had so much fun playing with Zing bubbles!

As you can see from the pictures, my youngest loved using Zing’s bubbles, and the bubbles were big! If it were small children using this product, an older child or adult would probably have to hold the pouch that has the bubbles.

These pouches from Zing would be perfect for a slow summer day, 4th of July fun, birthday parties, or church activity days

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The Ultimate Pinterest Party, Week 250

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  • This week on Tasty Tuesdays, I shared a new recipe for Slow Cooker Ham ‘n Swiss Chicken.  You can link up to the Tasty Tuesday’s linky party HERE.
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Thoughtful Thursdays: Discipling your Children is Fun!

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Summer break has started at our house.

With my recent rotator cuff surgery, summer break look a little different than normal. I am home-bound and activity challenged as I am wearing a shoulder cradle immobilizer. So what do we do all day?

  • I am trying to do a lot if computer work for school next year as well as for VBS and for 2 adult ladies book studies I am leading this summer.
  • My oldest 2 girls are finishing up a couple of classes.
  • We have started a couple of classes with my youngest 2 children. Next year I will be teaching 8 children at our little church school. That’s 7 different grade levels, although a few subjects are combined for a few of those grade levels. I need to study a couple new curriculum choices I am using this upcoming school year and also get ahead on a few subjects.
  • Every morning, the three youngest children and I are listening to a section of Proverbs and then writing a thought down from what we heard. We follow along in our Bibles as it is being read by Uncle Rick. He also gives a short commentary for kids on the verses read,
  • The girls are doing book studies with me once a week.

We know that the best way to disciple our children is to live out our Christian faith daily and speak about the things of Christ as we go about our everyday activities.

Discipling our children should be a natural part of our everyday life.

Even though discipleship should be a natural part of our everyday life, we can still proactively seek to disciple our children. This summer, I am doing that with a book study with the girls.

The oldest 2 girls are going to read I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.

They are not too excited about this as there is a workbook and tests that accompany this book, but it can count for high school credit. I think it needs to be read and talked about together, and summer is the only time I have to that.

“Parents are either going to prepare their children to follow Christ or to follow the world.“
Fritz Chery

The younger girls are reading Lies Girls Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free.

I have a 12 year old and an 8 year old reading this book. When I initially looked at the book, I thought I would have to help my 8 year old, my 12 year old would be able to do the chapters on her own, and then we would meet together to talk about it,

It ended up that we all did the Introduction together. My 8 year old enjoyed it so much that she wanted to do chapter 1, so she and I did chapter 1 together. I then got called away on a phone call, and she kept going and did chapter 2 on her own!

Some of the topics are ones my girls are not dealing with right now, but they may one day. The book so far has talked about how Satan will lie to us like he did to Eve and how we cannot trust something the book calls “sticky” feelings, which are basically feelings that are not good and feelings that will not go away,

Middle school or the tween years are especially hard years for girls. There are a lot of emotions and many tears. I want my girls to be able to trust in their God and not their feelings.

“If we don’t teach our children to follow Christ, the world will teach them not to.“

What surprised me was how much my youngest daughter liked the book. She is my child who dislikes schoolwork and reading the most of all my kids.

Discipling your kids can be fun!

That’s what we’re finding out!

I am very glad that I got each girl their own book as they are supposed to mark in the books. The book, A Mom’s Guide to Lies Girls Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free, is also very helpful. I read the chapter that coincides with the girls’ chapter before we meet for discussion.

Here is a good quote by Tim Challies who wrote The Disciple-Making Parent.

“We discipline our children not so that they will make us happy but so that they will serve Christ as adults.”

How are you discipling your children?

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Tasty Tuesdays: Slow Cooker Ham ‘n Swiss Chicken

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I don’t make slow cooker meals as much as I probably should, but this Ham ‘n Swiss Chicken is one that I have made a few times over the last 10 years.

This slow cooker recipe for Ham 'n Swiss Chicken is easy to make and will feed a large family!

This slow cooker recipe for Ham 'n Swiss Chicken is easy to make and will feed a large family!It’s easy to throw together, especially if you already have some cooked chicken. I also like this recipe as it is different than many of my other beef or potato slow cooker recipes.

Here’s how you make Slow Cooker Ham ‘n Swiss Chicken:

Make the following mixture:

  • Beat 2 eggs and 11/2 c. milk.
  • Add 1/2 c. melted butter, 1/2 c. celery, and 1 tsp. onion.
  • Stir in cubed bread (8 slices bread, cubed).

Place half of the mixture in a greased slow cooker.

Top with 6 thin slices of rolled up deli ham, 1 cup (4  oz.) shredded Swiss cheese, and 1 1/4 c. cubed cooked chicken. 

Make the following mixture:

  • Combine 1 can (103/4 oz.) condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted with
  • 1/2 c. milk

Pour half of the soup mixture over the ham, cheese, and chicken layers.

Repeat layers once.  Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until thermometer inserted into bread mixture reads 160°.  Yield:  6 servings.

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This slow cooker recipe for Ham 'n Swiss Chicken is easy to make and will feed a large family!
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Slow Cooker Ham 'n Swiss Chicken
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
5 hrs
 

Crockpot recipe that includes bread, ham, Swiss cheese, and chicken.

Course: Main
Cuisine: American
Servings: 8
Ingredients
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 c. milk divided
  • 1/2 c. melted butter or margarine
  • 1/2 c. chopped celery optional
  • 1 tsp. finely chopped onion
  • 8 slices bread cubed
  • 12 slices deli ham thinly sliced, rolled-up
  • 2 c. shredded Swiss cheese (8 oz.)
  • 2 1/2 c. cubed cooked chicken
  • 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted (10 3/4 oz.)
Instructions

  1. In a large bowl, beat the eggs and 11/2 c. milk. 

  2. Add butter, celery, and onion. 

  3. Stir in bread cubes. 

  4. Place half of the mixture in a greased slow cooker; top with half of the rolled up ham, cheese, and chicken. 

  5. Combine soup and remaining milk; pour half over the chicken. 

  6. Repeat layers once. 

  7. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until thermometer inserted into bread mixture reads 160°.

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The Perfect Birthday Present for Teens

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I have two teenagers and one tween (technically two tweens), and there is one present that they all want:

Bluetooth headphones

We all know that today is an age where almost every American kid has at least one device. It may be a Kindle Fire — that is what my tweens have. It may be a phone — my teens each have a phone. My oldest helps pay for her phone and does not use data unless it is an emergency. My second daughter got an Android phone for her birthday, and she does not call or use data unless it is an emergency. She texts me and uses Skype to talk to her cousin and friend that live far away.

What they DO do with their devices is listen to music and listen to Adventure in Odyssey stories — even the teens! And they will play the games and sometimes watch something. To listen to the stories and music, they use headphones. So they have all been asking for Bluetooth headphones, especially my second teen, as she likes to bake and practice soccer in the gym. It is much easier to listen to a story or music if your headphones can be cord-free and not attached to the phone.

When I was approached by 1MORE USA Inc. to receive the Stylish Dual BT In-Ear Headphones to review, I knew this was a product that I wanted to try out for my kids. 1MORE INC. sent me the headphones for me to write up an honest review (with no additional monetary compensation), and my daughter loved them!

Bluetooth headphones from 1More Inc.

The color would have been exactly the color she would have chosen, and they were very comfortable to wear. They were also extremely easy to pair with her phone.

Karis tested these headphones out.

She was able to put her phone down and listen to music as she played with her siblings. She even jumped on the trampoline while wearing them! She was so glad that I was able to review the headphones and that she’ll be able to get something that has been on her wishlist for a long time!

Bluetooth headphones from 1More Inc. Here is my daughter wearing them while doing many different activities.

Here are some features of the headphones:

  • 4 color options to match your personal preference: rose pink, platinum gold, spearmint green and midnight black. The sound chamber, cable, and ear tips all feature the same color scheme.
  • DUAL-DYNAMIC DRIVER
  • LOSSLESS BLUETOOTH AUDIO- Bluetooth v4.2 with a wireless range of up to 30 feet!
  • FAST CHARGE + 3C BATTERY- Fully charged, the Stylish BT Headphones are capable of 6 hours of use. Fast Charge capabilities give you 3 hours of use with only 10 minutes of charge time!
  • PERFECTED ERGONOMICS- A soft and flexible neckband with a skin-like silicone material offers more comfort during prolonged use. A built-in memory steel wire allows the neckband to fold for easy storage in your pocket or travel case.

Here is what is included:

  • Silicone Eartips (S,L,XL- 2 ea.)
  • Micro USB Cable
  • 1MORE Bear Sticker
  • Instruction Manual
  • Storage Bag
  • Product Brochure

I loved the storage bag that will hold the headphones as well as the extra eartips, the cable, and the instruction manual. It’s attractive and functional!

Bluetooth headphones from 1More Inc.

You can buy these headphones and more styles that 1MORE USA Inc. offers HERE and on Amazon. Buy them for your teen — they’ll be ecstatic!

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Thoughtful Thursdays: Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow

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This is going to be a short Thoughtful Thursdays post as I am typing with one hand,

Tuesday, I had a rotator cuff surgery as I had a 1″ full thickness tear in a tendon due to being rear-ended on the highway back in January. I was all by myself, and the tear was the only injury besides a neck sprain — and my van being totaled,

There are so many things I can be thankful for:

There are so many things to thank God for that we can truly say, "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow!"

  1. I was relatively okay.
  2. Everybody involved in the accident was very kind and truthful with how the events unfolded, and the accident was not my fault.
  3. Because it was a company car that hit me, they had insurance that will take care of everything.
  4. I was directed to a good chiropractor who had me get a MRI which then showed I needed to go to an orthopedic specialist.
  5. I did not want to be injured (of course) or have surgery as I now cannot drive for a while — which will be hard as we have 5 kids — but everyone I talked to that knew my surgeon said that he was very conservative and rarely recommended surgery right away, so that helped me to trust him.
  6. Due to delays, surgery happened later than I originally thought it would,  which meant I only missed the last 3 days of school. I got all my subjects completed before the surgery. Also, my oldest daughter’s community college classes are done and my oldest two daughters are done with their co-op classes. Less driving required of me!
  7. Surgery was done 6 1/2 weeks before our summer vacation so I will be able to help drive for that long trip.
  8. A lot of therapy should hopefully be done before the new school year starts.
  9. Even though I had a tear, the tendon had not retracted as much as the MRI showed, and the surgeon said my bone was very healthy and there were no signs of arthritis in that shoulder. He said it should heal very well.
  10. It was my left shoulder so I can still use my right arm.
  11. My kids are old enough to help. They will be doing all the laundries and dishes and some cooking. They also will have to help with washing and fixing my youngest girl’s hair.
  12. My husband has a somewhat flexible job which is nice as he now has to do all of the driving.
  13. We live on church property so the kids can walk to church and school.
  14. Church members have basically signed up for 8 meals (or given money to buy a meal) — plus I have some meals frozen. They have also offered to help drive if need be.
  15. I have found my body reacts better to Ibuprofen than to the narcotic pain medicine I was prescribed, which makes me very glad as I do not like taking narcotics, The nurse told me to take the narcotics for the first 2 days, so I tried doing that. Today, I was so nauseous even with eating food with my pill, and I felt a lot of pain. At 4:00 p.m., I switched to Ibuprofen, and I have no more nausea, I am alert, and I think I feel less pain. Maybe I am just sitting more upright and not putting pressure on that shoulder,
  16. I love the ice water circulation kit they gave me. For the first 3 days, I can have this cold water circulation on continually — like an ice pack that covers a bigger area. It’s awesome. And the immobilizer really helps to protect the shoulder too.
  17. We were able to get another 8 passenger car to replace our minivan within our price limit. It was still two times more than what I got for our minivan as our minivan was a 2006, but God did provide a vehicle. We had also bought a 2003 Buick Century for my oldest daughter to use to learn how to drive before my van got totaled. Because we had that car, we were not in any rush to buy a new vehicle.
  18. I have had so many people praying for me. I definitely have felt very loved by my church family and by family and friends far away.

Well, I guess that was more one-hand typing than I thought I was going to do, but once I got started, I couldn’t stop.

After all those things I could be thankful for, the thought that popped into my head was,

Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow!!

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Tasty Tuesdays: Multicooker Perfection

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Tomorrow is a big day for me — I’m going in for a rotator cuff tendon surgery. I was rear-ended back in January, and I have a full thickness tear that needs some repair. I have always been healthy, so this came as a surprise and obviously not something I would have planned. I am thankful that I do not have a debilitating illness that I have to live with all the time and that my kids are old enough to help. I am also thankful for my church family who wants to do all they can to help. However, it will still be an adjustment to be not able to use one arm.

Just this week, I received a cookbook called Multicooker Perfection from Zavor to review!

This cookbook has 75 recipes that can be done in your multicooker. Each recipe has a pressure cooking time and a slow cooker time!

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What perfect timing! I jumped on the multicooker bandwagon a year ago, but I haven’t used mine often. With this cookbook, I will use it more — and probably often in the next few weeks, because it has two recipe sections that start with the word, “simple” or “easy.” That is what I will need — simple recipes. There is even a Macaroni and Cheese Recipe. My kids will be happy about that!

Easy or simple recipes that can be done in your multicooker!

Next year, I will have an increased load at school, so I want to sample some of these recipes this summer so that I will know which ones will work for easy dinners.

I did not have time to make any recipes as I had to finish all the grading for this school year and make sure I am ready for my surgery tomorrow, but here are some more of the sections included in this cookbook:

Some of the recipes included in Multicooker Perfection

Since I have not made used my multicooker that much, I am very glad for the Multicooker 101 section. I need to understand how to use my multicooker better! Here you can see just a couple of the pages that are in that section:

How to use a multicooker

The recipe I am probably most excited to try is Vietnamese Beef Pho. My mother-in-law is Vietnamese and loves Pho, so I want to make it and let her taste it to see how authentic the recipe is.

Vietnamese Beef Pho recipe in multicooker!

What I find extremely interesting about this cookbook is that all 75 recipes include pressure cooking times AND slow cooking times. In a hurry? No problem! Need the recipe to be cooked over several hours while you are gone? No problem!!

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